SpaceAXEplorer
Well-Known Member
For those who've been reading this:
I deleted all the other posts in the thread, because it was politely put forth that it was a very long posting, and I might have been scaring off more people from card designing, than I was actually helping.
Most definitely, NOT my intention.
I am going to write up a series of downloadable tutorials instead, that will hopefully be more concise, and focus on short steps for more clarity.
Everyone interested in reading& learning my own methods for designing card models/rockets, will find the links on my website soon.
Here are the programs I will be covering- individually:
PAINT is the basic drawing program that comes with Windows operating systems. Al though it has limited abilities, it's a good tool for basic drawing/sizing
Metasequoia LE, which is a (free and shareware versions) cad program for animation purposes, which also, in my opinion, lends itself nearly perfectly for paper modeling.
https://www.metaseq.net/english/index.html
Pepakura Designer. This is an ‘Unfolder’. What it does, is it will take your 3D design form Metasequoia, (or other cad program of your choice, as long it reads one of the compatible file types), and ‘unfolds‘ the form into a 2 dimensional layout, for printing up and reassembling into the 3D model again.
It also has simple features for pasting graphics, and a full scaling ability, if you either want to UP/Down scale your design.
Pretty slick huh? Just punch a few buttons and *POOF!* Instant card model!
https://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/
If/When you visit the Pepakura site, don’t forget to visit and hoard all the free models offered their by folks who’ve used the program. It also really shows off just what this baby can do.
I recommend downloading the 2 older versions at the bottom of the page, V1.1, and V2.7. They are fully functional and require no license fee anymore.
Eric
I deleted all the other posts in the thread, because it was politely put forth that it was a very long posting, and I might have been scaring off more people from card designing, than I was actually helping.
Most definitely, NOT my intention.
I am going to write up a series of downloadable tutorials instead, that will hopefully be more concise, and focus on short steps for more clarity.
Everyone interested in reading& learning my own methods for designing card models/rockets, will find the links on my website soon.
Here are the programs I will be covering- individually:
PAINT is the basic drawing program that comes with Windows operating systems. Al though it has limited abilities, it's a good tool for basic drawing/sizing
Metasequoia LE, which is a (free and shareware versions) cad program for animation purposes, which also, in my opinion, lends itself nearly perfectly for paper modeling.
https://www.metaseq.net/english/index.html
Pepakura Designer. This is an ‘Unfolder’. What it does, is it will take your 3D design form Metasequoia, (or other cad program of your choice, as long it reads one of the compatible file types), and ‘unfolds‘ the form into a 2 dimensional layout, for printing up and reassembling into the 3D model again.
It also has simple features for pasting graphics, and a full scaling ability, if you either want to UP/Down scale your design.
Pretty slick huh? Just punch a few buttons and *POOF!* Instant card model!
https://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/
If/When you visit the Pepakura site, don’t forget to visit and hoard all the free models offered their by folks who’ve used the program. It also really shows off just what this baby can do.
I recommend downloading the 2 older versions at the bottom of the page, V1.1, and V2.7. They are fully functional and require no license fee anymore.
Eric
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